. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. The Fraternity has come into closer contact with col-lege faculties than any other, for once a year the S. E. C. inquiresdirectly of the college authorities concerning the scholarship andgeneral record of the members of each Chapter, acting upon thereplies as may be needed. Difficulties with faculties over opposition to fraternities arealmost things of the past. For years at Emory and Henry, therewas an unceasing war. Such was the case at Virginia Polytech- 92 THE KAPPA SIG
. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. The Fraternity has come into closer contact with col-lege faculties than any other, for once a year the S. E. C. inquiresdirectly of the college authorities concerning the scholarship andgeneral record of the members of each Chapter, acting upon thereplies as may be needed. Difficulties with faculties over opposition to fraternities arealmost things of the past. For years at Emory and Henry, therewas an unceasing war. Such was the case at Virginia Polytech- 92 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK nic Institute. At the latter, General Lomax and President Davis,of the Confederacy, were brought into the discussion. The Fra-ternity faced the obnoxious regulations at the opening of Vander-bilt, for the first year maintaining one of the most successfulsub rosa chapters ever in existence—as did Phi Delta Theta ata slightly later period—but finally succumbed. Anti-fraternitylaws coupled with the rigid military discipline at the West Pointof the South, the Virginia Military Institute, killed the Chapter -. THE EUTAW HOUSE,Where the First Grand Con iALTIMORE ave was held, 1876 For the first two years at Lake Forest, knowledge of membershipmeant expulsion from the college. There was trouble over ad-mission of the Fraternity to the the South, but theinfluence of General E. Kirby Smich and President JeffersonDavis, exerted in behalf of Kappa Sigma, made the course pos-sible. The hardest fight ever made in behalf of fraternities inAmerican colleges has taken place in Arkansas where the con-test has been carried, under the leadership of the Arkansas Chap-
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